ERPC Refreshes Its Solana Shreds Lineup — Dedicated Shredstream Ends, UDP Shreds Forwarding Arrives in September
ERPC Refreshes Its Solana Shreds Lineup — Dedicated Shredstream Ends, UDP Shreds Forwarding Arrives in September
ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Representative Director and CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki) and Validators DAO, the operators of ERPC, are refreshing the Solana Shreds product lineup in September 2026, moving latency-sensitive use cases to a new product structure centered on UDP delivery.
Alongside this refresh, we plan to close new sign-ups this week for all of the dedicated Shredstream products currently offered, as well as for Stream Bundle. Service for existing contracts will also end on September 5, 2026, and we will support migration to successor services according to each customer's configuration.
In September, we plan to launch UDP Shreds Forwarding, which delivers Shreds over UDP to an IP:port specified by the customer. By simplifying the Shreds delivery path itself, we are reorganizing a lineup that was built around dedicated endpoints into a product family better suited to applications that require low latency.
Pricing, supported regions, detailed specifications, and the official release date for UDP Shreds Forwarding will be announced once they are ready.
Dedicated Shredstream Products End on September 5
Until now, ERPC has offered several dedicated Shredstream products, differentiated by server configuration, performance, and delivery origin.
With this lineup refresh, we will close new sign-ups this week for the following categories, and service for existing contracts will end on September 5, 2026.
- All dedicated Shredstream products
- All dedicated Epic Shreds products
- Dedicated products including Epic Shreds Premium
- All Stream Bundle products
For customers currently contracted for these products, we will support migration before the September 5 end of service, based on the regions and delivery methods in use.
This change does not reduce our provision of Solana Shreds itself.
We are reorganizing a product structure that has been offered in units of dedicated servers and dedicated endpoints, and moving use cases with strong low-latency demand to a new delivery model that sends Shreds more directly over UDP.
UDP Shreds Forwarding Arrives in September
UDP Shreds Forwarding is the center of the new Shreds product lineup.
With UDP Shreds Forwarding, we plan to deliver Shreds from ERPC over UDP to an IP:port specified by the customer.
Conventional dedicated products were built primarily around providing the dedicated environment itself as the product. The new product focuses more directly on the original purpose — low-latency Shreds delivery — and provides the UDP data delivery itself as the service.
In Solana real-time processing, what matters is not simply CPU performance or server specifications, but the entire path from where data is produced to where it reaches the customer's application.
Network distance, hop count, forwarding, jitter, and any processing layers along the delivery path all affect actual data arrival time.
By simplifying the delivery configuration, UDP Shreds Forwarding aims at a structure that can be expected to lower latency further than current dedicated-endpoint products.
ERPC has always treated the end-to-end path from the Solana network to the user's application as a single system, rather than looking at the performance of an individual server alone, and has continuously optimized the network, hardware, OS, kernel, and delivery method. This Shreds lineup refresh applies that same thinking to the product structure itself.
Shreds Delivery over gRPC Continues Unchanged
What ends this time is the dedicated Shredstream products.
Existing Shredstream products that receive Shreds over gRPC are not affected by this change and will continue to be offered as before.
Customers can select the delivery method that fits the use case: UDP where the lowest latency is the top priority, and Shredstream gRPC for stream subscriptions over the existing gRPC interface.
ERPC will continue to make the most of the respective characteristics of UDP and gRPC, providing the delivery environment best suited to applications that use Solana Shreds.
Geyser gRPC Continues Unchanged
Yellowstone Geyser gRPC is also unaffected by this product reorganization.
Geyser gRPC and Shredstream gRPC both use gRPC, but they deliver different data for different purposes.
Shredstream is a data feed intended for retrieving Solana Shreds at high speed, suited to use cases that need data at the earliest possible stage.
Geyser gRPC, on the other hand, is a service for subscribing to transactions, accounts, blocks, and other data processed by the validator as a real-time stream.
ERPC will continue to provide infrastructure matched to the respective characteristics of Shreds and Geyser.
Epic Shreds Direct Continues, with a Planned Pricing Revision
Epic Shreds Direct, which delivers Shreds over UDP directly from the Epics DAO Validator, is not part of this end of service and will continue to be offered.
We also plan to revise the pricing structure for Epic Shreds Direct in step with the move to the new Shreds product lineup.
The new pricing will be announced together with the details of the new lineup, including UDP Shreds Forwarding.
Migration Support for Current Customers
For customers currently contracted for the dedicated Shredstream products and Stream Bundle that are ending, we will provide migration guidance based on the configuration in use.
Because the appropriate migration target differs depending on the regions required, the Shreds delivery method, whether UDP can be used, and any combination with gRPC, customers using the affected products should contact us through the support chat in the ERPC Web Dashboard.
We will review your current usage and support your migration before the September 5 end of service.
Optimizing the Product Structure Itself to Deliver Faster
ERPC does not evaluate the performance of Solana infrastructure by server specifications alone.
Introducing a fast CPU or NIC still leaves transit time if you are far from the data source. If extra hops or processing are added to the network path, latency and jitter increase accordingly.
That is why ERPC designs proximity to the Solana network, the data center, the network path, the server hardware, the NIC, the OS and kernel, and the final delivery method to the user as a single low-latency infrastructure.
In this Shreds lineup refresh, rather than staying bound to the dedicated server as the unit of product, we are redesigning the delivery configuration from what users actually need — receiving data faster.
Including UDP Shreds Forwarding, planned for September, ERPC will continue to improve on both the network and infrastructure sides in order to reduce the latency of data retrieval and transaction processing on Solana.
Supported regions, pricing, specifications, and the official release date for UDP Shreds Forwarding will be announced in due course.
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